[Foucault-L] Foucault and interpretivism


I am fairly new to Foucauldian methods and am currently trying to understand whether the idea of interpretation has any place in using Foucault's methods. I understand that for Foucault there is no inside or outside of discourse so in using his methods it is important to aviod searching for meaning.



My question would be, when analysing data am I just describing the practices? But then surely my descriptions are only my interpretation? From what I can see (with my noice minds eye) there is no way out of interpretation, or am I just talking about two different things?



Any feedback about this, or useful and informative pieces to read, or some general feedback on using Foucault would be much appreciated.



Regards

Ian

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